News archive from 5 November 2014

This equals a 0.75 percent voting stake based on a total share capital of 1.6 billion shares, including loyalty shares, according to Reuters calculations, and compares to a 0.4 percent voting stake Marchionne held previously.
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At age 14, Nikki Mattocks began to hear voices in her head that drove her to self-harm. Plagued with suicidal thoughts, she sought help from her school and GP, but she was not immediately referred to a mental health professional. The next six months,...

Violent video games, the sharing of indecent images on mobile phones, and other types of digital communications, are harming young people’s mental health, MPs warned on Wednesday, amid evidence of big increases in self-harm and serious psychological...

THE new head of Britain's electronic eavesdropping agency has accused internet firms of being "in denial" about the role their networks play in terrorism.
GCHQ director Robert Hannigan said they had become the “command-and-control networks...

A CHARITY peace anthem commemorating the First World War centenary is to take on the X-Factor winner for the &#8232;Christmas No 1.
The re-recording of All Together Now, originally a hit for Liverpool band The Farm, has been put together by many...

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When Valentina Giordano decided on a career in urban design, she chose London over her native Milan.
Unlike her friends in Italy, “who felt you had to know somebody”, she thought the UK job market was more meritocratic.
She said that having studied...

The number of people living in dire poverty in Britain is 300,000 more than previously thought due to poorer households facing a higher cost of living than the well off, according to a study released on Wednesday.
A report produced by the Institute...

More needs to be done to increase the pipeline of women being prepared for top jobs at Britain’s biggest companies, according to the authors of a government-endorsed report into diversity in the boardrooms of stockmarket-listed companies.
While FTSE...

SCOTTISH education is no longer "free at the point of need" - with parents being forced to fork out for classroom essentials, MSPs have been told.
Schools are also poised to close and teachers will be axed as swingeing budget cuts are...

RUSSIA has dealt a body blow to international efforts to stop terrorists getting their hands on weapons-grade nuclear material after failing to show at crunch talks.
Their absence also undermines efforts by US President Barack Obama to make a “safer...

REPUBLICANS were last night on their way to winning complete control of Capitol Hill in the US midterm election, late polls suggested.
The Grand Old Party was set to take back the Senate for the first time in eight years and strengthen its majority in...

MEXICAN police have captured a fugitive former mayor and his wife whom government prosecutors believe masterminded the abduction and feared massacre of 43 student teachers.
Rogue police working with a drug gang in the southwestern city of Iguala are...

Violent protests forced Zambia's interim president Guy Scott into a U-turn on dismissing the man tipped to take control of the country - amid accusations he was trying to tee-up the job for himself.
Mr Scott – who hails from roots in Lanarkshire –...